* Yahoo Inc is raising its ambitions in online video, with plans to acquire the kind of original programming that typically winds up on high-end cable-TV networks and streaming services like Netflix Inc, people briefed on the company's plans said. (http://link.reuters.com/buk38v)

* The world's top two cement makers are betting their merger plans are not going to run into an antitrust wall. France's Lafarge SA and Switzerland's Holcim Ltd plan to put $8 billion of assets around the world up for sale in a bid to secure antitrust clearance for their merger, a person familiar with the matter said. (http://link.reuters.com/nuk38v)

* General Motors Co executives huddled last week with newly hired adviser Kenneth Feinberg to consider potential ways to compensate victims of an ignition-switch defect linked to at least 13 deaths. But that effort raises a vexing question: Who gets the money? (http://link.reuters.com/ruk38v)

* BlackRock Inc took a big step toward picking a successor to co-founder and Chief Executive Laurence Fink on Sunday, announcing a reshuffling of the management ranks that will elevate a number of executives to prominent roles at the world's largest asset-management firm. (http://link.reuters.com/dyk38v)

* The strongest Asian contender for a global apparel brand such as Zara or Gap Inc is Japan's Fast Retailing Co Ltd , operator of the Uniqlo chain and Asia's biggest clothing maker in terms of revenue, which has ambitious plans to be No. 1 world-wide in six years. (http://link.reuters.com/tuk38v)

* GlaxoSmithKline Plc is investigating allegations of bribery by employees in the Middle East, according to emails reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, opening a new front for the company as it manages a separate corruption probe in China. (http://link.reuters.com/xuk38v)

FT

A 1,000-person poll shows that only a quarter plan to use savings to buy annuities upon retirement after the Chancellor unveiled pension reforms in the Budget.

A stand-off between Ukraine and Russian oil major Gazprom OAO over a $2.2-billion bill payment by the Ukrainian government continues with no progress in talks over the weekend. The deadline for the payment is Monday.

Cement titans Holcim and Lafarge SA will announce Monday their plans to sell production facilities worth about $5 billion in an attempt to offset regulatory hurdles that their proposed merger may face.

Belgium will relax planned curbs on subsidies for clean energy pushed by intense pressure from the Merkel-led Berlin government such that a refreshed German renewables law could be brought forward ahead of the European Unions guidelines.

The UK car industry is set to get a further boost by the launch of three new versions of the BMW Mini scheduled to be launched over the next five years, according to people with knowledge of the plans.

NYT

* The U.S. Justice Department is considering a deferred-prosecution agreement against Credit Suisse on charges of hiding American wealth offshore. The Zurich-based financial services company may have to pay more than $780 million in cash to suspend any indictment. The Justice Department is also pushing for a guilty plea from a Credit Suisse subsidiary. (link.reuters.com/kyk38v)

* British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said on Sunday it was investigating claims of improper conduct related to its business in Iraq, less than a year after China accused Glaxo of engaging in a bribery scheme aimed at increasing drug sales there. (link.reuters.com/xyk38v)

* Deals for everything from pens to pesticides, from painting offices to performing autopsies - all that and more is up for grabs on FedBid, a fast-growing private company that has positioned itself at the profitable nexus of government and business. Through FedBid, government agencies use "reverse auctions" - in which the lowest bid wins, rather than the highest - to decide who is awarded contracts.

* Many "momentum" stocks such as Tesla Motors Inc, NXP Semiconductors NV and Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc , those that had drawn buyers because of their ascending trajectories, ran out of steam on Friday. The unprecedented selling signals a potential shift in investors' belief in chasing eye-popping growth. (link.reuters.com/nyk38v)

* Researchers say a new type of drug can help prevent advanced breast cancer from worsening, potentially providing an important new treatment option for women and a blockbuster product for Pfizer Inc. In a clinical trial, the drug cut in half the risk that cancer would worsen, or progress, researchers said on Sunday. (link.reuters.com/syk38v)

* Jonathan Grayer, chairman and chief executive of education services company Weld North, plans to announce on Monday that the company has acquired two digital learning businesses that will help expand it into English-language education and school management. Weld North is paying more than $150 million for Imagine Learning and Truenorthlogic. (link.reuters.com/tyk38v)

* The Toledo Blade newspaper has filed a lawsuit against six government officials, including Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, claiming that two of its journalists were detained unlawfully while taking pictures outside a tank plant in Lima, Ohio. (link.reuters.com/vyk38v)

Canada

THE GLOBE AND MAIL

* After a bitter election campaign that was turned on its head by the question of sovereignty, Quebeckers will be voting Monday for the second time in 18 months to decide which party should lead the province. (http://link.reuters.com/vam38v)

* Ontario Conservative leader Tim Hudak says he will not back down after being slapped with a libel notice from Premier Kathleen Wynne over accusations she was behind an alleged plan to destroy documents in the gas plants scandal. (http://link.reuters.com/xam38v)

Reports in the business section:

* Multinational companies are bracing for sweeping changes to the way countries tax them and gather data as Canada and other developed countries join in a global corporate tax crackdown. (http://link.reuters.com/dum38v)

NATIONAL POST

* As Quebec's election campaign entered its final weekend, Premier Pauline Marois of the Parti Quebecois said she regrets that she allowed herself to get bogged down in the sovereignty issue. (http://link.reuters.com/dem38v)

* In a prelude to next year's federal election, New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair has issued a scathing indictment of Liberal Party of Canada leader Justin Trudeau - warning Canadians that Trudeau will never understand the middle class and will abandon his promised "progressive values" the moment he comes to power. (http://link.reuters.com/hem38v)

FINANCIAL POST

* Theatre company Livent Inc's former auditor, Deloitte & Touche LLP, has been ordered to pay damages of $85.6 million to the company's creditors after an Ontario judge ruled the accounting firm failed to detect fraud at the company, even though there were plenty of warning signs. (http://link.reuters.com/gum38v)

The Takeover Panel is understood to be putting the finishing touches to a report into the listing, which saw tycoon Nat Rothschild merge cash shell Vallar with Indonesian coalmines owned by the billionaire Bakrie brothers. The Serious Fraud Office and the Financial Conduct Authority have also launched inquiries.

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Downgrades

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Initiations

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